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Message to My 20-year-old Self
Twelve years ago I was in a very precarious position. I moved away from home for the first time to live with a man in Ohio that I met online. Said man got me pregnant with my first child, and I recall being pregnant on my 21st birthday, staring longingly at the Patron from across…
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A Guide to Healthy Boundaries in Romance
Step 1: You Are Not Perfect Everyone believes themselves to be the expert on healthy adult relationships. The fact of the matter is that most people carry toxic traits from their adolescence into their adulthood, usually without realizing. Step one of setting healthy boundaries is recognizing that no one is perfect, least of all you.…
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The Fear of Loneliness
I had a very common fear, I think; the fear of being alone. You could take this any number of ways. It could mean alone in a romantic sense, alone as in estranged from family, or alone as in the last person on Earth. For me, personally, I was afraid to end up alone without…
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 54
Questions answered, happily ever after.
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 53
Rising from the ashes, a phoenix may be reborn.
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 52
A life extinguished like campfire embers in a storm.
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 51
Death lies in wait to collect, as she views Life with little respect.
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 50
As Chandra oversees the prismatic inferno, a love distinguished leads to lives extinguished.
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 49
Old aspirations and new names
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Lizzie’s Diary – Entry 48
Lizzie & Lori face not only bandits, but their own demons.